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Introduce yourself in this thread!

eleonorang

fadesga Welcome, Fabio! 30 countries in only 2 years, that's impressive! Have you committed yourself to travelling for personal reasons or also because of your job?

fadesga Hope this place helps bringing us together.

We hope so too! There are already several topics on the forum from which to start, feel free to dive in or to create new discussions

fadesga

eleonorang Hi Eleonora! Well, the truth is: before starting the University I took my chance to travel Western Europe (70 days). Then when I was about to graduate, my fellows and I made our 8-month trip thru North America, the Middle East and Europe. And last but not least, I spent 1 whole year living and working in Northern Germany, where I also took the chance to make short visits to the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. Wonderful experiences all of them!

Dmitry

fadesga Welcome to our forum, @fadesga! I hope you'll have a ton of fun here! Make sure to start new discussions, we're always happy to chat about a variety of topics

fadesga 30 countries during over 2 years

I DO envy you! (in a good way)

James

Hello everyone. I am excited to be part of the open mic. I am James Onyejegbu. I am a business administrator/accountant by training. I began freelance translations after a one year spell in Spain. I am an avid reader of classical novels and now I am re-reading all my favorite novels in Spanish. I am Nigerian and I love to interact with people of all cultures. Big fan of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.

Cheers from Lagos

Dmitry

James Welcome to this forum, James! Lovely to see new faces here! Love LOTR too!

eleonorang

James A big welcome on The Open Mic, mellon What are your language combinations? Do you translate mostly in the financial field or literature as well?

KimEdwards-Buarque

Morning all!
I translate from Portuguese (Brazilian and European) and Spanish to English. I'm married to a Brazilian and spent ten years living there, although I now live in Spain (again, this is the second time). I turned to full time translation a year ago, after working for over 20 years in business, mainly in marketing roles in the tourism, sport and business sectors, which is where I now specialise. I'm also studying renewal energy and sustainability as a new specialisation.

Sorry, but I'm not a Bruce Willis fan at all. Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Ian McGregor, Jude Law are some of my favourites

Cesar

Morning you guys!
I am Cesar Luu, Vietnamese native, and of course, I translate from English and Japanese to Vietnam. My fields are marketing, technology, general and business. I wanna expand my fields in 2 years as I will study more.

Bruce Willis? No. I'm fan of hardcore martial arts movies, e.g The Raid, Undisputed 2 & 3, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee movies.

eleonorang

Welcome, welcome, @Cesar and @KimEdwards-Buarque !

Kim, it's great that you have such experience, and a diversified one at that. Is there any particular reason you added renewal energies to the combo (other than it being highly topical and important)?

Cesar, first of all, I love your profile pic, but that's an easy win! Are you planning on expanding all your fields or will you concentrate on a few of them in particular?

VanessaWalsh

Hey, everyone!

My name is Vanessa Walsh and I am a Canadian-turned-Bavarian freelance translator and teacher, working in a small city just north of Munich. I'm an avid traveler and language enthusiast, passionate about expression, linguistic fluidity, grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc. (I know; I'm such a nerd. )

I grew up in a small town north of Toronto, studied French, German, and Spanish in Kingston (Ontario), lived in Lyon, France for a year to improve my French, moved back to Canada, graduated, and then decided to move to Germany to improve my German. I ended up falling in love with Bavaria and intend on staying for a while.

I also consider myself, like @rjgilsdorf , an entrepreneur. I've recently started a business in multilingual translation, editing, and marketing for self-publishers, indie authors, and the like. It's called Babelsbook. Check it out, or recommend it, if you have a minute; that would be super appreciated. Our Facebook page is here.

I'm looking forward to chatting/interacting with you all here on OpenMic - shoutout to @Dmitry for starting it up! Unfortunately, I'm not the biggest Bruce Willis fan... I'm super into Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Terry Pratchett, and anything sci-fi-y.

eleonorang

Hey, VanessaWalsh ! Welcome on the Open Mic Forum!

VanessaWalsh I'm an avid traveler and language enthusiast, passionate about expression, linguistic fluidity, grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc. (I know; I'm such a nerd. )

You're in a very good company then

Babelsbook looks simply amazing! It's an all-round solution for literary texts and their authors. Hope it gets the attention it deserves

Dmitry

VanessaWalsh Oh my! Lots of new faces in here! Warm welcome to @VanessaWalsh, @Cesar and @KimEdwards-Buarque! Lovely to have you all here! Feel free to explore the forum, join existing discussions or start new ones! Hugs from Toronto!

Dmitry

VanessaWalsh I also consider myself, like @rjgilsdorf , an entrepreneur. I've recently started a business in multilingual translation, editing, and marketing for self-publishers, indie authors, and the like. It's called Babelsbook.

That looks great, @VanessaWalsh! One tip: don't launch the newsletter signup form as soon as visitors land on your page, let them browse through the content a little bit and spend some time on your site. Apart from that - great job!

VanessaWalsh

eleonorang Thank youuu!!

PaulWilliamDixon

My name is Paul William Dixon and I live in São Paulo right now - in a few days I shall be moving to Jundiaí, about 60 km away. Moving to a smaller town to escape the rat race and also for health reasons.
I work in the Portuguese > English (UK) and English>Brazilian Portuguese language pairs, and also do proofreading in the same combinations. I am a certified translator in the PT>EN(UK) pair by the Brazilian Translators' Association - ABRATES.
I regularly attend events in Brazil but none internationally yet. The next big event here is PROFT which is held in November.
I'm not a Bruce Willis fan though. I like romantic films and comedies. If I had to choose my favourite films I would go for 'Mrs Doubtfire' and 'Home Alone 2'. Hope to see Malala Yousafzai's biographical film though - I've read her book, it's great! Another of my favourites is 'The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler' about a Polish woman who saved thousands of children from concentration camps in World War II.
My hobbies are travelling and football. My team is Marília AC in the São Paulo State League Third Division. I have also taken to watching volleyball, influenced by my wife.
I see many people mention travel. If you come to Brazil, I would recommend: Rio de Janeiro (of course), Lorena (spectacular mountain views), Santa Maria Madalena (ecotourism), Blumenau (the biggest Oktoberfest outside Germany, and excellent beer), the Curitiba to Morretes rail trip, and Paraty (colonial town with a famous literature festival)

eleonorang

Welcome, welcome, welcome!

PaulWilliamDixon Thank you for the short-but-effective travel guide for Brazil! Hope I get to use it someday

KarenMontaldi would have to say that my favorite Bruce Willis movie is Pulp Fiction. What a great movie!

Excellent choice, Karen!

And @cariobana welcome to the forum as well! Looking forward to ABRATES!

LooshLuz

PaulWilliamDixon I work with the same language pairs as you do but I have been living in the UK since 1989. It would be lovely to network!

KarenMontaldi

Hello everyone!

My name is Karen Montaldi and I'm a Portuguese (br) <> English (us) translator with a focus on research. I would have to say that my favorite Bruce Willis movie is Pulp Fiction. What a great movie!

Pulp Fiction

Dmitry

Warm welcome to our newest forum dwellers @PaulWilliamDixon, @KarenMontaldi, and @cariobana! Lovely to have you here! Feel free to take a look around and jump into the existing conversations or start new ones. I'm always happy to chat!

KarenMontaldi I would have to say that my favorite Bruce Willis movie is Pulp Fiction. What a great movie!

Ain't no movie like a Tarantion movie! Great choice indeed!

cariobana Thank you, Dmitry, for this platform. I am really enjoying myself.

Thank you so much for being an awesome member @cariobana!

LooshLuz

KarenMontaldi Lovely to see lots of Brazilians here!

cariobana

Gio here. I am Brazilian and T&I has been my career for the past 37 years. From the mechanical typewriter to dictating into my smartphone, I have seen a lot of changes in translation, and in interpreting too. Currently I am a mentor for the ATA and ABRATES.

I don't think I have a favorite Bruce Willis movie. My husband loves the Die hard series, but I am more a "The Kid" type.

Thank you, Dmitry, for this platform. I am really enjoying myself.

LooshLuz

cariobana and another Brazilian! I am surprised there are quite a few of us!

ChristineClay

Hi, I'm a French to English freelance translator with a focus on legal translation. (I have a law degree and used to work in the legal field.)

I'm happy that you started this forum, Dmitry! I'm looking forward to talking with other translators here.

Oh, and I'll cast another vote for Moonlighting,